Interior Department Transfers 560 Acres of Public Land for Border Wall Construction

Interior Department Transfers 560 Acres of Public Land for Border Wall Construction
The U.S.-Mexico border fence just west of Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on May 7, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
Bowen Xiao
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Approximately 560 acres of federal land will be transferred to the U.S. Department of the Army to facilitate work on roughly 70 miles of border barrier, the Interior Department announced on Sept. 18.

The transfer of administrative jurisdiction of the federal land is in response to a series of applications submitted by the Army for construction or replacement of barriers along the southern border. The land transfer doesn’t include national parks or any Native American land.

Bowen Xiao
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Bowen Xiao was a New York-based reporter at The Epoch Times. He covers national security, human trafficking and U.S. politics.
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